As for it not loading, I'm getting the simple "Unable to connect to server" as is my flatmate, so I assume it's a server issue. I'm sure it will be cleared up shortly.

Yeah, I'm veering towards a server issue too, especially when you factor in that this forum and the main WoT pages have been slow over the last few nights as well while anything else I've tried to do online has been working fine. I checked the update log in the game directory, and it shows this: